Paul D. Boyer (Paul Delos Boyer) Quotes
Over and over, expanding scientific knowledge has shown religious claims to be false.
Paul D. Boyer
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I don't think I have one particular favourite writer. I have many whose works I will always buy or reread - Muriel Spark, Anthony Powell, Robert Louis Stevenson, Ruth Rendell, James Ellroy, William McIlvanney, Kate Atkinson, John Burnside, Louise Welsh, Iain Banks.
Ian Rankin
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There is only one thing people like that is good for them; a good night's sleep.
E. W. Howe
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Also, I knew that the impact of Motorcycle Diaries was going to be so resonant for all of us who went through the experience of making it that I didn't want to do anything that could reflect it.
Walter Salles
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I used to get up at five in the morning and play cricket.
Harold Pinter
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I think we must get rid of slavery, or we must get rid of freedom.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I've written books as acts of discovery: things I need to know and that I need to touch. And it's very dangerous work to deal with the most toxic internal elements... I feel like Madame Curie at my computer. I feel like I should be hemorrhaging from my eyes and ears.
Kate Braverman
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In 303 CE, the Roman emperor Diocletian declared war on the Christian church and instigated the most massive persecution it ever endured.
In 312 CE, the emperor Constantine himself converted to become a Christian.
In 391 to 392 CE, the vehemently orthodox Christian Theodosius declared all pagan practices illegal and in effect made Christianity the state religion of Rome.
With the growth of Christianity came moments of heightened intolerance. Sometimes this intolerance erupted in ugly acts of violence, suppression, and coercion.
Christians were not, of course, the only intolerant people on the planet. They themselves had been the victims of violent coercion early in the century.
Bart Ehrman
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I'd like to feel that whatever I play is a result of whatever I've heard.
Lee Konitz
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My mantra is: 'Good design accelerates the adoption of new ideas.'
Yves Behar
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If I didn't have a girlfriend, I'd have 10 girls at the studio, and they would make me not rap.
Young Thug
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Over and over, expanding scientific knowledge has shown religious claims to be false.
Paul D. Boyer